cherry picking git commits

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I’ve been a little bit slow to learn git. I put that
down to it being my fourth version control system (after rcs, cvs and svn).
Like a fourth child[1] it brought with it less novelty and I’ve got less free
time to get to know it. That being said, git is a revolutionary advance over
subversion and is worth committing the effort to learn.

A little while ago I imported my deployment library
‘deprec’ to github. This week
I discovered a feature that shows
me what changes other open source developers have been making on their forks of
the deprec codebase.

I’m pretty excited at how simple it is to see what other people have done with my code and merge it into deprec. Github have provided a feature that I think will really aid in the development of open source. Well done guys!

[1] I don’t have kids (yet) but if and when I do I hope they realize this was said in jest!